NEWS

To listen back to Maria’s BBC Radio 3 guest interview with Sean Rafferty, check out this link at 43:30:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000l79j?fbclid=IwAR3uJA0wDXt91r4EGyoTW76EidxUSbOFbwBvnpqgw4bB0fyrexGZ3lOd0tE

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Maria Marchant will be a guest on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ speaking about her lockdown project ‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’!  Tune in on Monday 27th July between 5:45-6:15pm:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp0c

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‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’ has found a home: the exclusive Blüthner Piano Centre in London!  Tune in on Monday 27th July at 7pm to hear the world premiere of Roderick Williams’ ‘Chaconne at Five’. To hear Roderick introduce the premiere, check out this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGnIVpaohQ4

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Maria has just written a blog for Gramophone Magazine!

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blogs/article/7-notes-in-7-days-at-7pm

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Check out Colin Anderson’s article on ‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’:

http://www.colinscolumn.com/maria-marchant-calls-for-scores-in-a-digital-project-showcasing-young-composers-during-the-pandemic/

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Rhinegold have just published an article about Maria’s project ‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’!

https://www.rhinegold.co.uk/international_piano/british-pianist-maria-marchant-calls-for-scores-to-showcase-online/

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Maria has started a new project during lockdown – ‘7 Notes in 7 Days at 7pm’! Each Monday evening at 7pm, she gives a premiere of a piece, showcasing a contemporary composer, live on her professional Facebook page.  Please click this link to find out more:

https://www.facebook.com/maria.marchantpf/live

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Due to COVID-19, many of Maria’s concerts have been cancelled and postponed – please check the Schedule page for the latest updates, many thanks and stay safe.

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Maria has been booked to perform in Rossini’s dramatic Petite Messe Solennelle on Saturday 27th June 2020 with Opus 48 conducted by David Crown. NB This event has been cancelled (COVID19)

https://www.ticketsoxford.com/whats-on/all-shows/opus-48-rossinis-petite-messe-solennelle/13485

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Maria will be performing at the Lansdowne Club as part of the Blüthner Piano Centre Concert Series! The concert is on Tuesday February 11th 2020 at 7pm and is a special recital for Valentine’s Day:

https://www.bluthner.co.uk/concerts/eventid/2

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Maria will be performing with the Worthing Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Gibbons on 10th November 2019 in Worthing!

https://worthingtheatres.co.uk/show/wso-to-russia-with-love/

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Maria is giving the world premiere of Adrian Williams’ ‘Soliloquy’ in a piano recital for the Gloucester Music Society on 3rd November 2019:

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Maria will be performing Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia this summer in the Burford Festival Final concert on 16th June 2019 conducted by Brian Kay!

https://www.evensi.uk/burford-festival-finale-concert-parish-church/293602270

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Check out more reviews from Maria’s latest revolutionary CD release ‘Bantock Rediscovered’ here:

http://www.mariamarchant.com/reviews/

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First review of ‘Bantock Rediscovered’ is out on Music Web International!

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jun/Bantock_rediscovered_SOMM0183.htm

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Read Maria’s guest blog for Gramophone Magazine right here to hear how her journey with Bantock came about:

https://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/gramophone-guest-blog/bringing-bantock-in-from-the-cold

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Just announced in Gramophone Magazine: ‘Bantock Rediscovered’ – Maria’s second CD for SOMM Recordings is being released internationally this June! Entirely comprising first recordings, this landmark CD is released in Bantock’s 150th anniversary year.  Book your place now at the CD launch to hear Maria perform live excerpts at Trinity Laban on Wednesday 6th June at 7:30pm:

Email info@mariamarchant.com by 01.06.18 while spaces remain!

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Maria’s returns to perform for the Ripley Recitals Association for her third recital in April in Kent:

http://www.ripleyrecitals.info/index.html

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Please click below for more information on Maria’s recital in Leominster for Espressivo Concert Promotions featuring works by Clara Schumann, Beethoven, Ireland and Roderick Williams:

http://www.espressivo.org.uk/forthcoming_concerts.php

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Click here to hear Roderick Williams introducing the world premiere of John Ireland’s Sea Fever reimagined:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql1HgH4EwWY&feature=youtu.be

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Maria is featured on the cover of the British Music Society January News:

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Tickets are available for Maria’s recital in Abergavenny on 9th February 2018:

https://boroughtheatreabergavenny.co.uk/events/maria-marchant-piano/

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4 star review in the BBC Music Magazine December edition!

“…delivered by Marchant with a richness of musicianship that haunts the memory…” Malcolm Hayes

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New review out on Arts Desk:

“…a superb transcription of…“Sea Fever”…by the baritone Roderick Williams…Goodwood by the Sea, a wonderfully realised sea picture…All phenomenally played, with Marchant’s chameleon-like ability to inhabit each work something to marvel at.” Graham Rickson

http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/classical-cds-weekly-bach-morton-feldman-maria-marchant

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Maria is a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star in the November 2017 issue!

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Music Web-International – new review now out:

“Full marks here for enterprising and imaginative programming…played with imaginative verve, sensitivity and technical accomplishment…Roderick Williams’ free piano transcription of Ireland’s Sea Fever: salty, breezy strongly flowing and vivaciously original….She most definitely brings this (Williams’ Goodwood by the Sea) tremendously evocative music to life on this album and it certainly deserves to become a standard British solo piano repertory item. For me it is the standout item on this album…” Ian Lace

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2017/Oct/Echoes_land_SOMMCD0174.htm

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The new SOMM CD ‘Echoes of Land & Sea’ is being featured on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 30th September on Andrew McGregor’s Record Review!  Listen back on the following link at 1.50.57:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0965q4v#play

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New 4 star review in the Observer:

“…Marchant excels…but is most impressive in Kenneth Leighton’s Six Studies Op 56, from 1969, displaying cool control in the monolithic chordal movements and great dexterity in the highly complex contrapuntal sections. Other treats include a new piano piece from the baritone Roderick Williams, a blue-skied and sunny Goodwood by the Sea….” Stephen Pritchard

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/24/various-echoes-of-land-and-sea-review-maria-marchant-piano

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First review is out – 5 stars on Classical Ear!

“…What tingling hush and concentration Marchant brings to the concluding ‘Night’ from Britten’s youthful Holiday Diary, and how deftly she showcases a sequence of six Holst piano works composed between 1924 and 1932…”  Andrew Achenbach

http://classicalear.co.uk/posts/NTJiN2JmZDhmOGFmYzE

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Maria’s CD launch on 18th September saw the world premiere of a new solo piano work composed by Roderick Williams OBE – Sea Fever reimagined!

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Listen back to Maria’s live performances and interview on BBC Radio 3 In Tune here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092k8mh

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Photo from BBC Radio 3 In Tune!

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Maria’s ‘Meet the Artist’ interview is now available on the Cross-Eyed Pianist Blog:

https://meettheartist.site/2017/08/30/maria-marchant-pianist/

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The new SOMM CD ‘Echoes of Land & Sea’ was featured on Wycombe Sound Radio recently – listen back at 17:20 on the following link:

http://listenagain.wycombesound.org.uk/index.php/shows/sunday-classics-amanda/

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BBC Radio 3 In Tune – Maria is delighted to be featuring on ‘In Tune’ on Wednesday 30th August to perform excerpts from hew new SOMM CD, ‘Echoes of Land & Sea’ between 4:30-6pm!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

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Read about Maria’s SOMM CD ‘Echoes of Land & Sea’ in the Pianist Magazine:

https://www.pianistmagazine.com/news/piano-news/pianist-maria-marchant-releases-debut-album

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Book your place at Maria’s SOMM CD launch on Monday 18th September to hear the world premiere of Roderick Williams’ Sea Fever, introduced by the composer! Invitation is below:

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Echoes of Land & Sea is available to pre-order on the SOMM Recordings website: https://www.somm-recordings.com/recording/echoes-of-land-sea/

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Maria will be performing Finzi’s Eclogue on Saturday 19th August in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe:

https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/757740-music-at-lunchtime/

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Burford Festival Finale 2017 Concert Photos are out! Click on Maria’s Facebook page to see the photos from this concert with the Burford Singers conducted by Brian Kay:

https://www.facebook.com/mariamarchantpf/

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Chichester Cathedral performance from 14th June – review is out and available here:
http://bit.ly/2v7hzFq

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Schubert’s Trout Quintet at Knepp Castle! Please click here to read some recent press:
http://bit.ly/2eV0okk

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Maria’s return visit to perform for the Sunderland Pianoforte Society is coming up on Tuesday 14th February!  Book on the following link to hear a popular programme celebrating Valentine’s Day through works by Granados, Prokofiev and Beethoven: http://sunderlandpianofortesociety.org/

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Hear Maria perform in the exciting ‘Music Talks’ series – come and discover works by Grieg, Albeniz, Moeran and Copland in this fascinating event on Wednesday 8th February: http://musictalks.org.uk/courses/what-am-i-listening-to/

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New on YouTube: video footage of the Shipley Arts Festival at Goodwood!  Click on the link to hear clips of Maria performing ‘Goodwood by the Sea’ by Roderick Williams and Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 No. 12 in A major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQUkeKasL9w

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Hear Maria perform in Ribble Valley for the Clitheroe Concerts Society this autumn of 5th October: http://clitheroeconcerts.org/homepage/maria-marchant/

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Just released: a review of Maria’s return recital in King’s Lynn! http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/local/latest-local-news/king-s-lynn-festival-review-maria-marchant-coffee-concert-1-7499472

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Tickets are now available for Maria’s recital for the King’s Lynn Festival 2016: 

http://www.kingslynnfestival.org.uk/whats-on?vieweventdetails&eventid=279&event=Coffee-Concert-Maria-Marchant

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‘Poetic Piano’ – Maria’s recital for the Steyning Festival featuring piano works inspired by poetry by Schumann/Liszt, Debussy, Ireland and Liszt is sold out!

http://www.steyningfestival.co.uk/whats-on/poetic-piano-51

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Festival Recitals – book now! Maria will be performing for the Cheltenham Plus, King’s Lynn, Steyning and Shipley Arts Festivals this summer.  Information can be found on the following link: http://www.mariamarchant.com/concerts/

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A pre concert photo: just before the world premiere of ‘Goodwood Variations’ composed by Roderick Williams for the opening concert of the Shipley Arts Festival!

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News from the Shipley Arts Festival 2016 launch: Maria will be performing on 10th April at the iconic Goodwood Ballroom in aid of the Friends of Sussex Hospices.  The Bernardi Chamber Ensemble and Maria will be giving the world premiere of ‘Goodwood Variations’, a new work by Roderick Williams commissioned by the Shipley Arts Festival and Maria will also be premiering Roderick’s ‘Goodwood by the Sea’ for solo piano in addition to performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 No. 12.  Tickets are available here: https://www.thecapitolhorsham.com/whats-on/allshows/goodwood-variations-concert/

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Ireland: A performer’s perspective – listen to Maria speaking about performing John Ireland’s piano works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHTQml3o2Mc

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Listen back to Maria’s PLG lunchtime recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields featuring works by Ginastera, Ireland, Balakirev and Liszt! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhMvOUJwmvQ

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Worcester Concert Club recital series is announced  – Maria’s recital on 28th February 2016: http://www.worcserenade.co.uk/concerts_1516.php#concert6

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Maria’s recent performance of Haydn’s Sonata XVI:44 in G minor on Radio 3 is available on the following iplayer link at 1.44.03: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b060pp8t

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Maria Marchant will be performing in the John McCabe Memorial Concert at Southbank Centre – the concert will be recorded by Radio 3 for later broadcast.  For programme information, please click here:  http://www.mariamarchant.com/event/john-mccabe-memorial-concert-southbank/

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A concerto appearance with the European Union Chamber Orchestra of Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 in Suffolk – more details available here: http://www.oldgranarystudio.co.uk/Dreamweaver%20Site/Granary%20Template/template009/Concerts%202015.html

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Harris Music Club – a commemorative lunchtime programme featuring works by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Ireland and Ravel. http://www.mariamarchant.com/event/lunchtime-solo-recital-3/

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Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff on Tuesday evening at St Martin-in-the-Fields in a solo piano recital. http://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/event/rhapsody-in-blue-2/

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A commemorative programme entitled ‘Conflicts and Memories – the First World War’ in the Cambridge Summer Music Festival featuring works by Ireland, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and many more: http://www.cambridgesummermusic.com/events/view/150

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